I didnt know Garou uses the Huang-1 chip.. anyone have a pic of the PCB?

ooh. I wonder if the Lion King 2 levels were originally intended for "Panda Prince 2" (the alternate title in the rom). maybe LK2 was originally supposed to be PP2 but they turned it into a Lion King game at the last minute.

oh and the wasp boss actually appears in the "Jungle Adventure" hack (on the Vangard GameCore/D-Cat 8 handheld).. I was wondering where the hackers got that from. I havent beaten it though, because it's glitchy as hell and I've only managed to reach the wasp once without it crashing.

Yeah, its really odd. Either Rinco returned to the video game business after 10 years to publish some weird multicart, or ABABsoft just stole it. but I have no idea why they'd do that. hmm.

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& heres something interesting:
http://www.famicomworld.com/forum/index.php?topic=4329.0
i didn't make the connection until now, but this 15 in 1 cart is probably by ABABsoft too. & it has lots more links to hummer/someri.

games are:
1. Street Fighter IV
2. The Hummer(!) - Somari hack (probably - its described as a Sonic hack)
3 & 9-15. "single screen game like Bubble Bobble; you're a Felix-like cat and you have to get from one side of the screen to the other without dying, then advance to the next level, which adds enemies and obstacles." - sounds very much like Panda Adventure
4. War - presumably the same game as the one on ABAB's multi. uses Earthworm Jim 3 graphics.
5-6. Jack & Rose - Titanic themed Harrys Legend hacks. Probably "Titenic".
7-8. The Duck & The Egg - Duck Hunt clones, they lay eggs in the latter
some screens here:
http://goods.ruten.com.tw/item/show?21001299047544

one thing i noticed is that none of these ABAB carts include JY-published Hummer games, or anything significant derived from them (except that sand from Aladdin) - its all either early Someri Team stuff or the later related games released by NT etc. which does seem to lend weight to that whole theory that Hummer Team split at some point.

Yeah, could be. Maybe it was one of the graphic artists, and they just hired an inexperienced programmer - the sprites are decent, even if the backgrounds arent particularly detailed, but  it just feels a lot like a student project or something.

Yeah, Titenic and Rings (and maybe War too) could well be Hummer/etc games.. or they could be crappy ABABsoft originals like Panda Adventure, I suppose. But it definitely looks like there's some kind of connection - maybe a former Hummer team member worked for them or something.

well that's weird. I always assumed SFII came first, because they stuck to the Master Fighter name for MFVI. but if that was the case it wouldnt make sense for them to remove their name from Chun-Li's stage for MFII, then put it back in for MFVI.

I guess maybe they made both MFII and SFII around the same time, MFII for countries where they couldn't get away with using the Street Fighter name and SFII for everywhere else, then at some later point they released another version of SFII with their name edited into the background (possibly as a reaction to the xoxo hack)?